Pigskin Geography is an activity that combines football,
teamwork, and geography to enhance your map skills and make you a more complete
geographer.

How Does
Pigskin Geography Work?

Once a week, usually on
Fridays, from September through December your team will receive a sheet of
geography questions based on the schedule of professional football games being
played that weekend.Working together, your team
will have to answer select questions to earn points for your team AND
your grade!

How Are The Teams
Made?

The first several weeks of Pigskin Geography is the “Preseason.”The start of preseason will have you working independently on some
Pigskin Geography questions.After one
or two practice sessions, Mr. Durand will divide the class up into teams (usually
with 3 or 4 members per team).These
teams will then choose their team nickname, taken from one of the NFL teams. (e.g. Patriots, Giants, Eagles, etc.)The first week after teams are made will be
the last week of the preseason, as the teams have one chance to practice
answering Pigskin Geography questions without it affecting their grade or their
teams standing in the rankings.After
the preseason, it’s on to the REGULAR SEASON!

How Does The
Regular Season Work?

On select Fridays (not every Friday and not for the
entire class) from September through December, you will break up into your
teams and work together to answer as many questions correctly as possible.

I will choose certain questions that you are required
to answer; the remaining questions will be bonus questions and an opportunity
for your team to earn more points.

After your team finishes answering all the questions the
sheet will be collected and graded by me over the weekend.The points you earn each week will be added
together and the team with the most points will be in first-place in the
standings.(The first place team,
both from the previous week and the overall standings, will be posted on the
standings board each week, the rest of the standings will remain confidential).

Are There
Playoffs in Pigskin Geography?

OF COURSE THERE ARE PLAYOFFS!

The playoffs will begin in January and will feature
questions similar to those your team answered each week during the Regular
Season.HOWEVER, there are TWO
differences between the regular season and the playoffs.

1.)Instead of each week being worth a classwork
grade, each week of questions is now worth a QUIZ grade.

2.)Instead of competing against the entire class to earn the most points, in
the playoffs you are matched up against ONE other team and you simply need to
earn more points than them to advance to the next round.

The last two teams standing
in the classroom playoffs meet in the Pigskin Geography Super Bowl and the
winners of the Super Bowl are immortalized in the PIGSKIN
GEOGRAPHY HALL OF FAME!